![]() A Bird on a Windowsill is my sixth book, but you can read it first! All my books are standalones! A Bird on a Windowsill is about young love and second chances in a small, Midwestern town. Find Salem & Savannah’s story and all my books on Amazon! 💜
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Did you know Savannah and Salem have a soundtrack?! Yep, you can listen to the playlist to A Bird on a Windowsill now on YouTube!
Dan + Shay - 19 You + Me
Billy Currington - We Are Tonight Echosmith - Bright Little Big Town - Girl Crush Labrinth - Beneath Your Beautiful ft. Emeli Sandé Blake Shelton - Lonely Tonight ft. Ashley Monroe Gabrielle Aplin - Panic Cord Jana Kramer - I Got the Boy Ron Pope - Reason to Hope Frankie Ballard - Helluva Life Christina Perri - Penguin Had a great time talking with Diane Jones about A Bird on a Windowsill on KLPW 92.7FM/1220AM this morning! Thank you, Diane and KLPW news editor, Kyle Quick, for having me on! If you didn't catch the interview this morning, you can find it here!
Thank you!!!! A Bird on a Windowsill is an Amazon Best Seller in Coming of Age fiction! I'm so humbled and honored! ♥ I hope you guys enjoy Salem and Savannah's story! And if you haven't had a chance to pick it up yet, you can find it here!
It's the first day of summer,
AND it's also release day! A Bird on a Windowsill just hit book stores today! So, make sure you grab your e-book and/or paperback copy now! Trailer:![]()
“Who do you choose, Vannah?”
She’s standing at the door, her dark green eyes slicing open the distance between her gaze and mine. And I’m just staring back at her. And three thoughts are all that are on my mind: I love this girl. I love this girl. I love this girl. She takes a breath. I hold mine. And with that, a silent thought slips into my cadence. I love this girl. I love this girl. I love this girl. Choose me. Choose me. Salem and Savannah have known each other since childhood, and nearly every memory they each hold, they share together. But when Savannah tells Salem that her family is moving to South Carolina only days into their sophomore year of high school, Salem is devastated. They vow to spend the rest of Savannah’s time in their small hometown, together, rewinding the last ten years of their young lives, until one day, Salem wakes up, and Savannah’s gone. But that’s not the last time their paths cross. In fact, life continues to intertwine their stories, until one sunny afternoon, Salem walks into their hometown’s newspaper office and looks up to a familiar face. It’s Savannah, and she’s just the same as the last time he saw her. The only problem is, he’s not. Based in small-town Missouri, A Bird on a Windowsill tells the story of a boy and a girl who share one past. And now, at twenty-three, having spent the last six years apart, they both must navigate the delicate line of loving and letting go, until they're each faced with a choice that could change their future—and their story. "Oh my heart! This book had the sweetest and most precious love story. Young love at it finest and the kind of ending we all dream about."
~Jesus Freak Reader Read the full review here. ![]() "Laura Miller has hit another home run with A Bird on a Windowsill." "No one can transport me to small town, middle America with realistic characters like Laura Miller. " "A Bird on a Windowsill is a soothing splendor." ~Kathy Reads Fiction Read the full review here. "A Bird on a Windowsill is a book that is guaranteed to pull on your heart strings."
~ A Soccer Mom's Book Blog Check out the full review here!
This is the last preview before A Bird on a Windowsill releases Monday! Just 3 more days! I can't believe its almost here! AND I can't wait for you to read Salem and Savannah's story! Until then, though, please enjoy this clip from the prologue!
A Bird on a Windowsill
A Clip from Prologue One Salem
“Who do you choose, Vannah?”
My tone is even, an attempt to hide the uncertainty in my voice. Her gaze immediately casts down to the floor. I watch as she squeezes her eyes shut, bites her bottom lip—a nervous habit of hers—and then slowly raises her head. ... People say birds are a bad omen. But I’m not so sure because while the only bird I ever knew tore my world in two, I loved every single moment of it. My name is Salem Ebenezer—or Eben, if you’re Savannah. Short e. Short e. And most of all, short for Ebenezer. And this is the story about me and Savannah Catesby. Savannah Elise Catesby, that is. Though, to me, she was always just Vannah. I met Vannah when we were very young—just five years old. She had short, blond hair and soft green eyes. Though, as we grew older, her hair got longer and her eyes, darker and more mysterious. I loved Vannah. I loved her for her unruly laugh and the way she made me feel. To her, I wasn’t the smallest and scrawniest boy in the first grade. To her, I was...me. And I loved her because she would always pick me first for her kickball team. And I loved her for those times I forgot my lunch, and she shared hers with me. But most of all, I loved Vannah because she had this innate ability to make everyone around her feel loved. But somewhere in the midst of junior high—in the midst of zits and a squeaky voice and an awkward way of getting around, both physically and in conversation, I changed—we changed. That was about the time I realized that I loved Vannah not only for the way she made me feel and the occasional ham and cheese sandwich, but also for our long talks under the stairs after school and the way her mouth moved when she laughed. And I fell in love with the way she ate peanut butter cups—from the inside out—and how she always knew when something was wrong...or new...or different. And without me even realizing it, the hours turned into days, and the days, to years, and before either of us knew, I think, we were fifteen and in high school. And that was the first time, I think, that I noticed Vannah’s long, tan legs....and the precarious way my name rolled off her tongue...and how she made just pulling her hair back or signing her name in those long, drawn-out curves, somehow sexy. And it was then that I realized I loved her for those things, too. But still, for whatever reason—I can’t tell you—I never told her that. I never told Vannah that I loved our long talks or her long legs. Not right away anyway. In fact, it wasn’t until she had moved away and had come back for a summer, the year we both turned eighteen, that I finally got up the courage. It was the summer of the Polaroid, and God must have taken pity on my oblivious self because he smiled down on me, and he gave me those three little words—and a second chance to tell her how I feel. July 6, 2001. That was the day that I finally realized that I not only loved Vannah for everything she was, but I, plain and simple, loved Vannah. And I told her that. I told her that—that same day I realized it. On a soft night in the middle of Hogan’s slab, I told Savannah Catesby that I loved her. And I only remember the date because she said it back. I’m twenty-three now. It’s July 12, 2007. I’m still in love with that little girl with the unruly laugh and the long, wild hair and the dark stare and the tireless heart. And I know she still loves me. But now, she’s standing at the door, her dark green eyes slicing open the distance between her gaze and mine. And I’m just staring back at her. And three thoughts are all that are on my mind: I love this girl. I love this girl. I love this girl. She takes a breath. I hold mine. And with that, a silent thought slips into my cadence. I love this girl. I love this girl. I love this girl. Choose me. Choose me. |
I write about rain on tin roofs, gravel roads, old trucks with holes in the floorboards and small-town summer nights. I grew up on a farm in a little Midwestern town. Now, I live in Kansas City, Mo., with my weatherman husband.
Follow Me! Laura Miller's first
contemporary romance novel, Butterfly Weeds, hit the Amazon Best-Seller's List and Top 100 in October 2012. The sequel to Butterfly Weeds, My Butterfly, released in June 2013. For All You Have Left, By Way of Accident, When Cicadas Cry and A Bird on a Windowsill followed. The Life We Almost Had debuted as a best-seller in 2018. Laura's latest small-town romance, The Dream, released in 2019 and is an Amazon #1 Best-seller. Also check out her book of poetry, entitled Love Story, and her children's book, Pay It Forward, available now! Archives
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